268 



Committees, Special : Page. 



Extended Accommodations . . 31, 89, 101, 102, 106, 107 



Franklin Celebration 31, 36, 91, 95, 96, 97, 108, 161, 162 



Cope, Dr., resolution respecting the improvement of the Proceedings 263 



Resolution adopted and Committee appointed 263 



Cornelian formerly worn by Dr. Benjamin Franklin, presented by Miss Jane Rit- 



tenhouse Wilson 100 



Election, Annual, of Officers, etc 27, 28 



Etting, Colonel F. M., will of 2-58 



Etting bequest, motion of Arthur Biddle in regard to 258, 263 



Exchanges ordered : 



Museo Michoacano, Morelia, Mexico ; San Francisco Public Library ; Soci&e 1 

 Royale de Ge"ographie d'Anvers, Antwerp, Belgium ; Tokyo Anthropologi- 

 cal Society; Rochester Academy of Science; The Royal Asiatic Society 

 (Straits Branch), Singapore; K. Danske Geografiske Selskab, Copenhagen; 

 Observatorium der K. K. Nautischen Akademie, Triest ; K. K. Militar- 

 Geographische Institut, Wien ; Geodatische Institut, Hydrographische Amt 

 des Reichs-Marine-Amt, Berlin ; Verein fur Erdkunde, Cassel ; K. Sachs. 

 Meteorologische Institut, Chemnitz; Siebenbergische Verein fur Natur- 

 wissenchaften, Hermannstadt ; Naturwissenschaftliche Verein, Osnabriick ; 

 Wiirtembergische Verein fur Handelsgeographie, Stuttgart ; Etat Indpen- 

 dant du Congo, Bruxelles ; Soci6t6 Neuchateloise de Geographic, Neu- 

 chatel ; Union G6ographique du Nord de la France, Douai ; Soci<t6 de 

 Geographic, Lille ; Ministero di Agr. e Commercio Direzione Generate della 

 Statistica, Rome ; Manchester Geographical Society ; Belfast Natural History 

 and Philosophical Society ; Institute Meteorologico Nacional de Costa Rica ; 

 Direcci6n General de Estadistica, La Plata. 



Field, Robert Patterson, a lately elected member, presented to the Chair 248 



Franklin, letter from Daniel F. Wolf, suggesting the Tombstone of, should be relet- 



tered, etc 98 



Franklin celebration 161-226 



Friebis, Dr. George, a lately elected member, presented to the Chair 28 



Jannet, Claudio, letter from 257 



Jefferson, plaster portrait medallion of, presented 261 



Legacy from Auguste Carlier 257 



Librarian nominated 28 



Librarian reflected 29 



Massion, P., letter from 98, 99 



Mitchell, James T., a lately elected member, presented to the Chair 259 



Muhlenberg, Rev. F. A., letter from, accompanying his donation of the Botanical 



Books of his grandfather, Rev. Henry E. Mvihlenberg 94,95 



Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Emden, letter from, thanking Society for its letter of 

 congratulation on the late celebration of the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of 



its Foundation 92 



Norris, William J., mortgage ordered to be satisfied 101 



Officers and Council, Proceedings submitted 89, 106 



Patterson, Robert, letter from, in reference to Peale Collection of Stone Imple- 

 ments 260 



Peale Collection of Stone Implements, letter from Mr. Robert Patterson in refer- 

 ence to 260 



Phillips, Emily, letter from, offering the portrait of Henry M. Phillips 103 



Phillips, Henry M., portrait presented 103 



Accepted 104 



Photographs received : 



Dr. R. H. Alison, Ardmore, Pa 29 



II Marchese de Gregorio, Palermo 29 



Runic characters on Mananas island presented by Prof. J. F. Rothrock 93 



Dr. John A. Ryder, Philadelphia 89 



